Articles by Peter Mair

• Ruling the Void
  • Peter Mair

  in NLR 42, November-December 2006, pp. 25-51
  Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Social Theory
  

  The hollowing of democracies, as ruling elites retreat and voters abstain from mass electoral politics. Peter Mair on the paradoxes of its ‘third wave’ triumph and emergence of a governing class bereft of legitimacy, as parties become appendages of the state.

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  Also available in Spanish, Turkish, Italian and Russian
• Partyless Democracy
  • Peter Mair

  in NLR 2, March-April 2000, pp. 21-35
  Subjects: Britain , Political Theory and Strategy , Labour Movements and Parties
  

  New Labour’s rule in the UK is often held to offer a paradox: devolution of power to regions and cities, concentration of power in the central executive and support structures. Peter Mair suggests there is no contradiction—Blair’s project is a ‘consensual’ system above politics, gutted of traditional parties.

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  Also available in Spanish
• The Question of Electoral Reform
  • Peter Mair

  in NLR I/194, July-August 1992, pp. 75-97
  Subjects: Britain , Political Theory and Strategy
  

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